Separable button.



E. LE BRETON.

SEPARABLE BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED JUNE I, 1914.

1,173,817. Patented Feb. 29,1916.

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EDWARD LE BRETON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VOLTA R.HALL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SEPARABLE BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Feb. 29, 11916.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD Ln Bnn'roN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county ofCuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in separable Buttons, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanydrawings.

This invention relates to improvements in separable buttons such as areapplicable to cuffs and soft collars and it has for its objects toprovide a button of this nature which is very simple of construction andeconomical of production, and which comprises, generally, a receivingmember and an entering member, the receiving member consisting of a pairof heads that are con nected and spaced apart by a neck, and having asocket for the reception of an enlarged portion of the entering member;and the entering member carrying a pair of heads that are connected andspaced apart by a neck. The neck of each of the members is adapted tooccupy one of the button holes of a cutl' or collar.

Attention is directed to the manner in which I form one of the heads andthe neck of each member, from a single piece ofmaterial; and the way inwhich I attach the entering member to one of the heads and the neck thatare carried thereby.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 represents a perspective of theentering member of my separable link button; Fig. 2 is a perspective ofthe receiving member; F ig. 3 is an end elevation of the entering membershown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section through said member on the line 4t4of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the entering member; Fig. 6is a longitudinal section through the receiving member; Fig. 7 isatransverse section of the receiving member; and Fig. 8 shows the linkbutton attached to a cufi.

I will now describe my improved separa ble link button by the use ofreference characters and referring first to the entering member, 1represents the outer head and 2 the inner head which are connected andspaced apart by the neck 3. p v

As will be seen clearly from Fig. 4 the inner head member and the neckare made from an integral piece of sheet metal, which consists of a flatcentral portion 4 and side extensions 5 that are bent back alongside andin contact with the portion l until they very closely approach eachother when they are then turned at right angles from the portion 4, toform the neck 8. At the upper end of the neck, the members extend inopposite directions in a common plane and are secured in any suitablemanner, preferably by soldering, to the underneath surface of the headmember 1. Before the piece of sheet metal is formed into the head member2 and neck 3, the central portion 4 is perforated to allow the branches6 of the entering member 7 to be passed therethrough. Now with the upperinverted U- shaped end of the entering member occupylng the spacebetween the portions 5, whereof the neck 3 is formed, said members arepressed together between the branches 6 of the entering member and theiredges are also pressed about the outer edges of said branches. In thismanner the entering member 7 has very securely fixed to it, one unit ofthe link button. It will be noted that the lower ends of the branches 6of the coupling member 7 are curved outwardly in opposite directions andthen inwardly again to form an enlar ed portion, and the extreme ends ofsaid member overlie each other and are cut away on an les so that theaggregate thickness of the overlapping portions does not exceed that ofthe main body portion of said member.

The receiving member of the button consists of a dish-shaped head 8, tothe fiat side of which are secured the out turned ends of extensions 9of a plate which has a central section 10 that is separated from theends 9 by portions 11, said portions being spaced apart, as shownclearly in Figs. 2 and 6 to form, with the interior of the dish-shapedhead 8, a suitable socket for the enlarged end of the entering member.

It will be noticed that the parts of the portions 11 adjacent thesection 10 are pressed against such section, in the same manner as theextensions are pressed against.

the portion, 4 of the previouslydescribed member. The central section 10of the aforesaid plate is slotted at 12 to form an entrance to thesocket, and as the enlarged end of the entering member is forced throughthe slot 12, said member is contracted until it passes through the slot12 when it is again expanded to its normal size by reason of theresiliency of the spring wire from which it is formed.

In the use of my improved separable link' button, each of the unitsthereof is placed the receiving member; it being to roll up the sleevewithout removing the danger of on one of the button holes of a cuff orcollar, and the enlarged portion of the entering member is forced intothe socket of the receiving member.

As illustrated by Fig. 8, in connection with a cuff, the entering memberis permitted to swing within the socket of'the re-' ceiving member, thusallowing-thecnfi to assume its natural shape. V 7

hen 1t is desired to roll up the sleeves,

the wearer may place his fingers between the ends of the cuff and pressthem apart when the entering member 7 will yield to permit its enlargedend to be withdrawn from possible now portions of the button from thebutton holes of the cuff. Furthermore, there will be no losing the'unitsof the button be cause the opposed heads of each of said nnits willsecurely hold the unit within its respective button hole.

I claim is 1. A separable link button comprising a pair of members, eachmember having a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart byaneck, one of said members having a socket, and a spring-wire enteringmember carried by the other of said members and projecting beyondtheihead of same and hav ing an enlarged portion that is adapted to ,bereceived by the socketed member.

2. A separable link button comprising a pair of members each of whichconsists of a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart by .aneck, one of said members havmg a mouth and an enlarged space behind thesame. and a sprlng-wire entering memher which is carried by the otherofsaid head, the latter head having a slot and the extensions thereofbeing spaced apart adjacent said slot to form, with the interior of thedished member, a socket, an entering member that is formed of springwire and hayingits ends overlapped and the side portions'adjacentthereto curved outwardly in opposite directions and then inwardly toform an enlargement that is adapted to occupy the aforesaid socket, anda head havslaving thus described my invention, what ing its centralportion perforated for the reception-of the'entering member and havingextensions that are adapted to bejpressed about the adjacent portionofthe entering member whereby the entering member is securely attachedthereto, the ends'of said extensions beingtnrned in oppositedirectionsand in a common plane adjacent the end of theentering memberf V In aseparable link bination of an entering member that is formed of springwire with itsends beveled and overlapping, the branches of. said memberadjacent said ends being curved ontwardly in opposite directions to forman en largement, the opposite end of the entering member having appliedto it a pair ofhea'ds' thatare connected and spacedapart by a neck, theneck and the inner head being button, the comformed of a single'piece ofsheet metal the central portion whereof is perforated'for the rece atienof the branchesof theentering member, the inner head having extensionsthat are turned over in contact with its outer surface and are pressedtogether about the outer end of the entering member, the ex:

treme ends of said extension being turned outwardly in oppositedirections and in a common plane, the outer head member being vattachedto the onttnrned portions of the I extensions, and a receiving memberthat consists of a dlshed head that has a second head connected to it byextensions on said second head which are turned inwardly against itsouter surface and then toward the dished head where they are separatedand connected to the latter, the second head being slotted andtheextensions being spaced apart adja} cent the slot to-form a socketfor the reception of the enlarged portion of the entering member.

5. A separable link button comprising a pair of members each of whichconsists of a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart by aneck, having a socket, and an entering member 7 carried by the other ofsaid button members, said entering member being formed of springwire'and consisting of a pair of sub stantially parallel branchesthatare curved outwardly and then inwardly at their free ends, the free endsoverlapping and having their opposed faces cut away so that thethickness of the overlapping portion of the entering member isapproximately the same as the thickness of the wire from which it isformed; 1 7

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature in the presenceoftwo witnesses.

EDWARD LE BR E TON,

Witnesses:

BRENNAN BpWns'r, ROBERT L. BRUCK.

topics of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

one of said members

